G'day John,

I mentioned somewhere here about a Tamil mate. They came to Australia 2 1/2 years ago he's a qualified engineer on the skilled migration program. Got a very good job, rented a house, bought a new car,now saving hard to buy their own place. They have just had their second daughter. Surprisingly their oldest daughter when she went to primary school here, she was year 7, but she was well ahead with reading, writing, mathematics, was about 2 years above her class average. Funny story, when they arrived I naturally said we'll go for dinner, "I know a nice local Indian restaurant", my mate said; "Can we go elsewhere, we eat curry at home all the time, we're going out." So I took them to a Turkish place. He spent some years working in Germany, said there's really good Turkish restaurants in Germany. The fact is there are a very normal family.

Even the oldest daughter shows me up, I asked her; "Do you like McDonalds?" she replied; "Yes, but do you know its not good for you, its very bad for you."....."What about K Fried?" I said do you know the ABC? she looked at me like I was stupid, then proceed to rattle off A to Z in double quick time. Gee, you're smarter than me, hummmm. I'm sure that girl is 9 going on 35.

CM

I'm not a fan of mass demonstrations no matter the cause. Mass movements attract people who lack confidence in themselves as individuals; and they don't achieve anything. The ballot box is the place to make changes, and Australians made it clear that a far Left, authoritarian, anti-American government is what they want. It cannot be denied. I have no sympathy for the average Australian, but I do recognise that our ridiculous voting system needs replacing if we really want to punish errant politicians, who sometimes “admit” their wrong-doing (Trudeau) but keep on doing it; and if they are forced to go, the drones replace them with someone just the same: a bit like battered wives who discard a brutal husband, but replace him with something similar.

The illegal Sydney Harbour Bridge demonstration of hatred and stupidity is just one example of good-for-nothing mob anger that won't achieve anything. Netanyahu has got even tougher, and publicly branded Israel's erstwhile ally as ‘shameful’.

Most of the participants were unknown nutjobs; with a few known nutjobs: Julian Assange, Antoinette Lattouf, Mehreen Faruqi, Libertarian John Ruddick, and Bob Carr; and a big photo of Muslim murderer Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Just the sort of rabble Australia needs to be identified with!

A few Labor MPs were not important enough to be identified.

Gone is the time when Australia was celebrated as a place where there was no room for the hostilities of the old world. All for nothing. Life will go on elsewhere despite idiots ruining our reputation.

The biggest laugh is the draconian desire to ban ‘hate-speech’ while condoning it to the whole world on an Australian icon, and calling it a ‘peaceful demonstration’.

Paul,

Your Tamil mate’s story really illustrates how far reality is from the caricature some people paint.

If English proficiency and education are what keep a culture strong, then families like his aren’t a threat - they’re a boost. His daughter is already ahead of the curve academically, understands nutrition better than many adults, and will grow up bilingual in a country that could actually use more of that.

The funny thing is, if we’re being honest, a bigger challenge to “preserving Australian culture” isn’t skilled migrants with functional English - it’s the parts of Australian culture that wear low literacy, lack of education, and anti-intellectualism like a badge of honour.

If English ability is your yardstick for who’s “fit” to be here, then the real problem isn’t at the border, it’s in our own backyard.

Answer- Ttbn- The reason I'm promoting this demonstration is because it is a way to spread our message and keep people on message. There are many useful results of talking about our ideas amongst ourselves but many avenues for talking amongst ourselves or in public through the media are denied to people on the Traditionalist side of politics, even in our ostensibly democratic nation. As Elon Musk says traditionalists don't have access to the town square. It shows that many give lip service to democratic principles as long as the public doesn't have any real agency. But there is some risk to those attending rallies. The police seem to have crossed the line into politics, and authoritarian extremism. There is a risk of being doxed by our political enemies and loosing your job, family, etc for expressing your opinion. Our political enemies don't face the same challenges as we do, hopefully this is why we will win. I suspect in many cases the police facillitate the doxing of traditionalist's. But the police are downstream of Marxist/ Woke/ Labor governments in many cases and live under their own tyrannical threat over their jobs, families, children, future. John Locke, the father of liberal democracy, promoted governments free of gangs but sadly we just have bigger gangs, making Locke a mafia boss, and democracy "depositism".
Governments know that they made a mistake stopping the white Australia policy, so rather than admitting their mistake, and fixing it, they kick the can down the Marxist road, double down on the Marxist rhetoric, and stomp on free speech.
I believe that most of the problem lies in Marxist indoctrination through universities.
I would love to chat with you ttbn at a rally some day. So would many people I know.
Take care mate.

Ttbn- Remember we don't have to feed the ugly noisy trolls. We can talk to each other and to the empty space, filled with quiet minds waiting for a chance, that recognise manipulation, even if they don't know what to do about it. For every loud mouth there are ten quiet ears listening for wisdom. As you've said wisdom isn't created in the academy, the academy should be seeking the wise, but doesn't have the wisdom to do it. One definition- Wisdom is knowledge of how to use knowledge.